Marillana Station, often referred to as Marillana, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station but has previously operated as a sheep station.

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currently own the property, which is run in conjunction with

Ethel Creek Station Ethel Creek Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station. It is located about north east of Newman and south of Nullagine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It had about double frontage to the Fortescue River and ...

; together the two properties have a combined area of . The Marillana Pastoral Company was established in 1920. In 1949 approximately 15,000 sheep were

shorn Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a '' shearer''. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or ...

to produce 336 bales of wool. Alex L. Spring was the part owner and station manager of both Marillana and

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Stations in 1952 when he started to use road trains to transport cattle to Meekatharra.

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{{Stations of the Pilbara Western Australia Stations in the Pilbara

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